Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : Nat!
DATE : Sat Jan 26 14:49:43 2002

On Freitag, Januar 25, 2002, at 09:29  Uhr, Erik M. Buck wrote:
>
>>
>> 2) Why we should move to Cocoa if we want to do OS X only development
>> and optimally exploit the potential of OS X?
>
> Using Cocoa is a joy.  Cocoa is technologically far superior to almost
> anything else I have seen.  Carbon is the stone age of programming
> compared
> to Cocoa (IMHO).  Cocoa/Openstep/NeXTstep have existed for > 12
> years and
> are well proven.

Well, what does "well proven" mean in this context (excuse me for
not looking it up in Google). Does it mean that it is known that
you can complete an application with it ? Probably not.
Does it mean well tested with very few bugs and optimized
performance ? Not the Cocoa I know of late.

I still like it, but actually sometimes I think it is showing its age.

IMO Cocoa only really shines together with EOF/Obj-C, alas those
days are gone...

As to the original question, my view is that as long as Java is
unsuitable for writing something like iPhoto, Cocoa-Obj-C will live
and prosper, which should be the next five years at least.

Nat!
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